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News, Weather & Archers
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A series of scenes from my young days, with musical illustrations. If you grew up in England in the 'sixties, you'll groan in recognition. If not, you'll probably be baffled. Gilly is my sister - and every word IS true.
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Yet another songwriter-guitarist-singer. In that order. Though I earn my living mostly playing bass.
I play bass with various bands in many genres, and also perform at mainly acoustic-style venues as a solo songwriter-guitarist-singer (in that order)
Song Info
Genre
Acoustic • Acoustic Vocals
Charts
Peak #60
Peak in subgenre #10
Author
Heather Enid Wells
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Heather Enid Wells
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October 18, 2006
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MP3 7.4 MB • 128 kbps • 8:04
Story behind the song
News, Weather & Archers is a sort of mock-music-hall song. I wrote it in 2000-1, and, having performed it then probably half-a-dozen times in public, recently decided to revive it to play live. However, it really is a difficult song and I've given up that idea. The guitar part is a real finger-buster (especially some of the 'illustrations'), the tune changes all the time and hardly any of it repeats at all in eight minutes, then there are a LOT of words to remember and no way would I consider singing to a piece of paper. But the song means too much to me to let it die so I thought I'd put it up here, so that even if nobody ever listens to it, anybody can who wants to. This was a mini-disc recording directly from the PA, my Parker Fly guitar and voice recorded together. I've tried to raise and even-out the levels a little on the computer but the quality of the original is very weak and I'm afraid I've probably made it worse. Never mind, you can hear what the song is saying.
Lyrics
The full lyrics to this and all the other songs on the same album can be found on my Different Windows CD page on the Travelling Records website.
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Scars and Shadows
Mar 25, 2008
This is a fun tune very cute... You remind me so much of Christie McVie from Fleetwood Mac another one of my favorite female artist very talented you are my love... Armfuls of Hugs Love to you Penny